Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollywood is happy again. A lot of summer films are making big money; each June weekend brought a new box-office champ. Beverly Hills Cop II, then Predator, then The Witches of Eastwick, then Dragnet. Half a dozen other films are silly-season successes. And so the industry, even as it fretted about a strike threatened by the Directors Guild, entered July with high hopes for the best summer since Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins made the wickets blister...
Violence is done in movies; violence is done to movies. At one stage or another, Hollywood films are censored by just about everybody. The studio bosses decide whether, and then how, a film should be made. The industry's ratings board has slapped proscriptive X ratings on the original versions of such seriously intended films as Taxi Driver, Cruising, Scarface and Angel Heart until the sex and violence were trimmed. The big theater chains and most pay cable services show no X-rated films. Most newspapers and TV stations, making no distinction between pornography and a serious film for adult...
...short films set to rock songs and produced by record companies to promote their performers. These imaginative, visually arresting clips soon caught on; rock music was suddenly something to look at, not just listen to. Such performers as Duran Duran and Cyndi Lauper rode to success on them; top Hollywood directors, including John Landis and Brian De Palma, tried their hand at making them. The glitzy, fast-paced "MTV style" seeped into everything from movies to television commercials. MTV, in short...
...mental energy. Initially, physicians attributed the mysterious affliction, which often strikes clusters of people, to a mixture of depression, hypochondria and mass hysteria. It has been called the yuppie disease -- because a disproportionate ) number of its victims have been young, white professionals -- chronic mononucleosis or, simply, fatigue syndrome. Hollywood is rumored to be plagued by the disease. Film Director Blake Edwards struggled with it for three years. "Your body starts to collapse," he says. "It was a matter of hell every...
...Kubrick returns to the movie mainstream, he also waters down his material with a Hollywood ending. So far, he has closely followed his source novel, Gustav Hasford's taut, scary The Short-Timers. Now -- we will say no more -- Kubrick pretties up the climax with a bogus moral dilemma and some attenuated anguish. A viewer is finally left to savor earlier delights: the dialogue's wild, desperate wit; the daring in choosing a desultory skirmish to make a point about war's pointlessness; the fine, large performances of almost every actor (Ermey and D'Onofrio seem sure shots for Oscar...